March 4, 2013

In Florida, President Obama has nominated the first openly gay black man to sit on a federal district court. In New York, he has nominated the first Asian American lesbian. And his pick for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit? The first South Asian.

Reelected with strong support from women, ethnic minorities and gays, Obama is moving quickly to change the face of the federal judiciary by the end of his second term, setting the stage for another series of drawn-out confrontations with Republicans in Congress.

This is such a ridiculous Obama puff piece. Obama pushing to diversify the federal judiciary? Like it's an Obama innovation?! I can't remember when Presidents didn't go out of their way pick federal judges from various minority groups.

WaPo is obviously using this diversity hook to criticize Republican resistance to liberal nominees. Does anyone in their right mind believe the GOP objects to these nominees because of their particular diversity factors.
It's a very long article, and the childish level of the Obama PR is so embarrassing I feel I should simply look away....

The new wave of nominations is part of an effort by Obama to cement a legacy that long outlives his presidency and makes the court system more closely resemble the changing society it governs, administration officials said.

Oh, administration officials said? Just take dictation, why don't you? Did these officials use the phrase "cement a legacy that long outlives his presidency" or did you concoct yourselves?

By the way, what U.S. President doesn't have a legacy that long outlives his presidency? How much "cement" is really needed for us not to forget a President?

But I do get the point of Presidents trying to extend their political power by relocating it in the judiciary. That's no innovation. That's an old, old tradition in America....

Now that we've spent generations elevating the unqualified to high positions in order to punish today's citizens for sins committed by long dead ancestors, can we measure the cost? How much of our failure in education is due to this? Our faltering economy? The cluelessness of many civil servants? We know that none of Affirmative Action's stated goals have been achieved, just ask any Democrat, racism is worse than ever. Time for people to wake up and dispose of the backward, worse than useless "Affirmative Action" that has done so much damage.

WaPo is obviously using this diversity hook to criticize Republican resistance to liberal nominees. Does anyone in their right mind believe the GOP objects to these nominees because of their particular diversity factors.

Well, lots of people will believe it. Whether they're in their right mind or not is a matter of opinion, I guess.

[I really, really wish it was possible to turn on emails after posting, even if you forgot.]

"WaPo is obviously using this diversity hook to criticize Republican resistance to liberal nominees. Does anyone in their right mind believe the GOP objects to these nominees because of their particular diversity factors."

No True Scotsman fallacy aside, I just had to respond to someone this morning who, aside from thinking the birther movement was an example of widespread racism toward Obama, seems fairly level-headed (works for a living, successfully dresses himself, etc.), so yes, it's possible such people exist.

On the current edition of the "Celebrity Apprentice" the two teams were not broken up into men vs women as they were the last few years.You see when they did the women seemed to lose every time until some men were put on their team.

This time there were two captains. "Rock of Love" dude Brett Michaels and country star Trace Atkins. They chose up sides like in the schoolyard.

Trace only picked white guys and two women. Brett picked second and started off with Omarosa who is the Barack Obama of the reality world. Now Trace went with the best player available method and the only good player he missed out on was LittleJon. But if you read the comments on several TV blogs he was called out for being a racist. You see he wasn't supposed to pick the best players in order to win....he was supposed to pick a "diverse" team which is more important than winning.Right now he is taking a beating for picking a winning team.

Everything you need to know about life you can learn by watching reality TV.

Why push for more lesbian judges or homosexual judges or hispanic judges or black judges if your aim is to strengthen equal justice under the law? No reason. No reason for the constant diversity push if equal justice were of any concern. Every reason to push for diversity if your aim is social justice for lesbians or homosexuals or hispanics or blacks. And of course social justice can only be meted out at the expense of equal justice. The death of equal justice by the way must end in the death of the ethos that made the western world. "Not amusing," say the professors, as they march forward into the glorious future of social justice, a desert spreading out behind them.

Can anyone explain how being an Asian lesbian gives such a person any especially worthy insights into law and justice? I don't think we should discriminate against Asian lesbians, but I don't see why this quality makes their appointmment in any way noteworthy......Also I would think that if someone becomes too sui generis then their insights into human nature become not deeper but more distorted.

I love how all the diversity candidates are now diverse in multiple ways. So it's not just the first black. It's the first gay black. Or the first lesbian Hindu. I'm waiting for the first openly black Eskimo Siamese twins one of whom is a transsexual and the other who is a gay hermaphrodite to serve on the district court. Just having the first Eskimo isn't diverse enough.